For a start, this slow growth in median income overlaps with a scale of immigration into America outpacing all immigration in the rest of the world put together.

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We looked at median salaries to wipe out outliers at the top and bottom ends of the scale.

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Also, note that the median minutes played term has been divided by 100 to put it on the same scale as the number of games played and goal differential factors.

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